Speakers planning to cover major food industry trends and other topics include Lynn Dornblaser from the London-based Mintel Group Ltd., Craig Morris with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Pat Westoff with the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.

Doane also plans a panel of expert economists, according to a news release.

“The conference theme, ‘Agriculture – Navigating the Uncertainty’ will provide a valuable picture of the expectation for agriculture,” Shane Jones, Doane’s general manager, said in the release. “Anyone that is impacted by the agriculture segment will benefit from attending. We will have representatives from agribusiness, financial firms, food processors, and restaurant chains.”

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Vance Publishing Corp., Doane is an agricultural economics firm with expertise in market analysis, commodity price outlook, risk management, and economic analysis, according to the release.

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Doug Ohlemeier

Doug Ohlemeier, who has written for The Packer since 2001, serves as eastern editor, a position he has held since August 2006. He started at The Packer as a staff writer after working for nearly a decade in commodity promotion at the Kansas Wheat Commission, where he was a marketing specialist.
Doug worked in radio and television news writing, producing and reporting for seven years in Texas, Missouri and Nebraska.
He graduated from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, in 1984, with a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in history. He earned a master’s in corporate communications from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, in 1991. In college, he served as a news editor of the daily O’Collegian newspaper and interned in radio and television news departments.